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Reilly S, Grutzmacher RP. Autoshaping in the rat: conditioned licking response to a stimulus that signals sucrose reinforcement. Behav Processes. 2002;59(1):15-24doi: 10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x.
Reilly, S., & Grutzmacher, R. P. (2002). Autoshaping in the rat: conditioned licking response to a stimulus that signals sucrose reinforcement. Behavioural processes, 59(1), 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x
Reilly, Steve, and Grutzmacher, Richard P.. "Autoshaping in the rat: conditioned licking response to a stimulus that signals sucrose reinforcement." Behavioural processes vol. 59,1 (2002): 15-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x
Reilly S, Grutzmacher RP. Autoshaping in the rat: conditioned licking response to a stimulus that signals sucrose reinforcement. Behav Processes. 2002 Jul 31;59(1):15-24. doi: 10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x. PMID: 12090942.
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Behav Processes. 2002 Jul 31;59(1):15-24. doi: 10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x.

Autoshaping in the rat: conditioned licking response to a stimulus that signals sucrose reinforcement.

Behavioural processes

Steve Reilly, Richard P. Grutzmacher

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

PMID: 12090942 DOI: 10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00044-x

Abstract

The present experiments were designed to determine if repeated presentations of an empty sipper tube (the conditioned stimulus or CS) with the response-independent delivery of a sucrose solution (the unconditioned stimulus or US) from a second spout results in the development of Pavlovian conditioned responding. In Experiment 1, rats in the experimental condition received paired CS-US presentations whereas subjects in the control condition were exposed to random presentations of CS and US. In Experiment 2, an additional control condition (CS alone) was included and, to encourage generalized responding between the US and CS, the CS tube was filled with water for all groups. The results of both experiments indicate that the CS-directed responding in the paired CS-US condition was Pavlovian in nature. Thus, the present procedure serves as an autoshaping task in which conditioned licking is generated.

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